Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 19 16
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing Azure 178 70 49
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 15.21% 11.13% 10.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.49% 34.83% 34.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 53 36
10th Percentile £400 £317 £483
25th Percentile £438 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £475 £536
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% -11.42% -9.57%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £623
90th Percentile £675 £668 £648
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £507
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.31% -7.82%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 429 201 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 36.67% 31.96% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 151 91
10th Percentile £366 £300 £400
25th Percentile £447 £366 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +8.38% -8.65% -12.31%
75th Percentile £600 £539 £595
90th Percentile £675 £650 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile - - £21.75
90th Percentile - - £21.90
Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.00 £200.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -90.50% +830.23% +1.15%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +9 173 £516 +8.58% 91
Doncaster -7 1 - - 9
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 20 (11.24%) Confluence
2 12 (6.74%) Apache Spark
3 8 (4.49%) Apache
3 8 (4.49%) SharePoint
4 7 (3.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.81%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.81%) Apache Superset
6 2 (1.12%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 94 (52.81%) AWS
2 84 (47.19%) GCP
3 36 (20.22%) GitHub
4 31 (17.42%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (15.17%) Entra ID
6 21 (11.80%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (7.87%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (6.74%) Power Platform
9 11 (6.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 9 (5.06%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (5.06%) Serverless
11 7 (3.93%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.81%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (2.81%) Azure Storage
13 5 (2.81%) Kong
13 5 (2.81%) OpenShift
14 4 (2.25%) Cloud Run
14 4 (2.25%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (2.25%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.99%) Network Security
2 13 (7.30%) DNS
3 11 (6.18%) Firewall
4 5 (2.81%) VPN
5 4 (2.25%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (1.69%) Kerberos
6 3 (1.69%) NAS
6 3 (1.69%) SAN
7 2 (1.12%) DHCP
7 2 (1.12%) LAN
7 2 (1.12%) Multicast
7 2 (1.12%) VLAN
7 2 (1.12%) VSAN
7 2 (1.12%) WAN
8 1 (0.56%) Intranet
8 1 (0.56%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.30%) Big Data
2 12 (6.74%) SQL Server
3 11 (6.18%) Data Lake
4 10 (5.62%) Power BI
5 7 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.37%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.81%) Neo4j
7 5 (2.81%) Trino
8 4 (2.25%) Metadata
8 4 (2.25%) Redis
9 3 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.12%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.12%) Flink
10 2 (1.12%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.12%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.56%) Looker
Development Applications
1 34 (19.10%) Jenkins
2 28 (15.73%) JIRA
3 13 (7.30%) Git
4 8 (4.49%) GitLab
4 8 (4.49%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (3.93%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.12%) Browser DevTools
6 2 (1.12%) Claude Code
6 2 (1.12%) Fiddler
6 2 (1.12%) Gatling
6 2 (1.12%) JMeter
6 2 (1.12%) Maven
6 2 (1.12%) MSBuild
6 2 (1.12%) Postman
6 2 (1.12%) Selenium
6 2 (1.12%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.56%) JUnit
7 1 (0.56%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.56%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 74 (41.57%) Social Skills
2 70 (39.33%) Finance
3 28 (15.73%) Banking
4 25 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.18%) Financial Institution
6 8 (4.49%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.81%) Law
8 4 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.69%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.69%) Legal
10 2 (1.12%) Billing
10 2 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.12%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Prime Brokerage
11 1 (0.56%) Retail
11 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (15.73%) Lead
2 27 (15.17%) Architect
3 22 (12.36%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (9.55%) Developer
5 12 (6.74%) Senior
6 11 (6.18%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (5.62%) Consultant
8 9 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (5.06%) Cloud Architect
8 9 (5.06%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (4.49%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.49%) Security Engineer
9 8 (4.49%) Software Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) Technical Leader
11 6 (3.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (3.37%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
11 6 (3.37%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 6 (3.37%) Lead DevOps
11 6 (3.37%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (31.46%) Terraform
2 25 (14.04%) REST
3 17 (9.55%) OAuth
4 16 (8.99%) Kafka
5 14 (7.87%) .NET
5 14 (7.87%) OpenID
6 13 (7.30%) OAuth2
7 12 (6.74%) React
7 12 (6.74%) SAML
8 10 (5.62%) SailPoint
9 9 (5.06%) ASP.NET
10 8 (4.49%) JSON
11 7 (3.93%) .NET Core
11 7 (3.93%) AngularJS
11 7 (3.93%) Spring
11 7 (3.93%) Spring Boot
11 7 (3.93%) Web Services
12 6 (3.37%) FIDO
12 6 (3.37%) HTML
12 6 (3.37%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 36 (20.22%) Cloud Native
2 20 (11.24%) Data Protection Act
3 17 (9.55%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (6.74%) Data Centre
5 11 (6.18%) Onboarding
6 10 (5.62%) AI Agents
7 7 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (3.37%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (3.37%) Replication
8 6 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.81%) Mobile App
9 5 (2.81%) PKI
10 4 (2.25%) Autonomous Agent
10 4 (2.25%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (2.25%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (2.25%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.69%) EMC VMAX
11 3 (1.69%) EMC VNX
11 3 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.11%) Windows
2 17 (9.55%) Linux
3 15 (8.43%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.69%) AIX
4 3 (1.69%) Android
4 3 (1.69%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.69%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.12%) Unix
6 1 (0.56%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (52.25%) CI/CD
1 93 (52.25%) DevOps
2 63 (35.39%) Cybersecurity
3 51 (28.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (25.84%) Observability
5 39 (21.91%) Agile
5 39 (21.91%) Stakeholder Management
6 36 (20.22%) Platform Engineering
7 35 (19.66%) AI
8 32 (17.98%) Analytics
8 32 (17.98%) Microservices
9 31 (17.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (17.42%) DevSecOps
10 30 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (15.73%) Test Automation
12 27 (15.17%) Software Engineering
13 26 (14.61%) Cloud Security
14 25 (14.04%) RBAC
15 24 (13.48%) Containerisation
15 24 (13.48%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (34.83%) Python
2 42 (23.60%) Java
3 34 (19.10%) SQL
4 28 (15.73%) PowerShell
5 14 (7.87%) C#
6 11 (6.18%) Bash
7 9 (5.06%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.49%) Bicep
8 8 (4.49%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.93%) Go
9 7 (3.93%) Groovy
9 7 (3.93%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.25%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.69%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.56%) C
12 1 (0.56%) Cypher
12 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (9.55%) Degree
2 12 (6.74%) AWS Certification
3 9 (5.06%) Azure Certification
3 9 (5.06%) CISSP
3 9 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 7 (3.93%) CCSP
4 7 (3.93%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (3.93%) CISM
5 6 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.37%) CCSK
5 6 (3.37%) PMI Certification
5 6 (3.37%) PMP
6 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (1.69%) NCDA
8 3 (1.69%) NCIE
9 2 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (1.12%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.06%) QA
2 8 (4.49%) NIST
3 7 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.37%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.81%) HIPAA
5 5 (2.81%) SOC 2
6 4 (2.25%) GRC
7 3 (1.69%) Data Quality
8 2 (1.12%) GDPR
8 2 (1.12%) PMO
9 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 30 (16.85%) Active Directory
1 30 (16.85%) Docker
2 9 (5.06%) Hyper-V
2 9 (5.06%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.25%) vSphere
4 3 (1.69%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 3 (1.69%) SRDF
5 2 (1.12%) NFS
5 2 (1.12%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.56%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.56%) Ceph
6 1 (0.56%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 61 (34.27%) Kubernetes
2 24 (13.48%) Ansible
3 16 (8.99%) Prometheus
4 14 (7.87%) Grafana
5 7 (3.93%) Kustomize
5 7 (3.93%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.69%) Argo
7 3 (1.69%) EMC VPLEX
7 3 (1.69%) Packer
7 3 (1.69%) SnapMirror
7 3 (1.69%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (1.69%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.12%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (1.12%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.12%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.12%) SnapVault
9 1 (0.56%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.56%) QRadar
Vendors
1 57 (32.02%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.55%) Databricks
3 13 (7.30%) Google
4 12 (6.74%) ServiceNow
5 9 (5.06%) CyberArk
5 9 (5.06%) VMware
6 8 (4.49%) Okta
7 7 (3.93%) OpenAI
7 7 (3.93%) Splunk
8 6 (3.37%) Centrify
8 6 (3.37%) Cisco
9 5 (2.81%) Red Hat
10 4 (2.25%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.25%) Ping Identity
10 4 (2.25%) Veeam
11 3 (1.69%) 3PAR
11 3 (1.69%) Brocade
11 3 (1.69%) Dell
11 3 (1.69%) EMC
11 3 (1.69%) NetApp